This is not news.
Reading other blogs can be a sometimes painful mission. You do it to see what others are writing about, to study their style (or lack thereof) and to see what…
Peter Lowry
Are parties considering the cost of living?
There might be a problem brewing in the election that the politicians are missing. It is the real cost of living. The problem is that the parties are listening to…
Chuckles Chooses Cheap.
Conservative leader Andrew ‘Chuckles’ Scheer was not out to look cheap the other day. It was just the effect when he again announced that the conservatives would guarantee Canada’s health…
It started with John D. Rockefeller.
It was John D. Rockefeller in the 1800s who put together Standard Oil of New Jersey and created ‘Big Oil.’ He created the power house that to this day is…
Trudeau does a Harper.
There was a strong sense of déjà vu as our prime minister headed to the far north to kick off his election campaign. It was just four years ago when…
Canada’s Senate: Still not Democratic.
Despite having many friends in the Senate over the years and appreciating some of their hard work, there is no justification for such an elitist and undemocratic component to the…
Thinking of Election Week on a hot day.
Yes, it is the dog days of summer and nobody is really interested in politics. We understand that. It is not as though the old pros are stymied. They can…
The gang that can’t even sell pot.
It is hard to believe that Doug Ford’s gang in Ontario cannot even get a handle on the pot business. Is there no part of government in which they have…
Making Canada(?) Great Again.
It is not art. It is campaign literature and it always feels like a race to the lowest common denominator, free from the rules of grammar, where less is more…
The Brits are crazy too.
There is a pattern emerging. What particular hell we are heading for might still be a mystery but I fear the pace is accelerating. What you would have thought impossible…
Why your vote matters.
One of the most specious arguments by people trying to promote proportional representation voting in government is that of the ‘wasted vote.’ They are suggesting that in first-past-the-post voting, if…
Bollocks to Bernier.
When a politician takes a stand that he knows is counter to a majority of voters, he must have a reason. This is the question we need to ask ourselves…
The Grand Scheme and the Ocean Drift.
At this time of the phony election that precedes the real election, we are not really concerned about where pollsters think people are at but where they are headed. It…
Mr. Trump’s Fascist Following.
It was a heavy-set woman who could be in her 50s in the crowd, as the camera scanned it, that caught my eye and had also caught the attention of…
Showing the Scheer Sneer.
Since Andrew Scheer was made clerk of the House of Commons by Stephen Harper’s conservatives, it has been impossible to find common ground between the two of us. And it…
Butts is back.
Gerald Butts and company are back to drive the liberal campaign bus. One can only hope that a few lessons were learned from their past four years in Ottawa. After…
Mad Dogs, Englishmen and Candidates.
That knock on your door on this hot July day is more likely to be a candidate for the coming election. This time is gold for candidates, they can pick…
Paint yourself Green.
Green party leader Elizabeth May looks tired. The 65-year old is no stranger to politics or environmentalism. She has been touring in and around Barrie on some of the hottest…
When you are ready, Justin Trudeau.
Facing facts is not a favourite pastime for our prime minister. No doubt there were many old-time liberals who have told him he is heading for trouble. He has made…
Political polls and other summer games.
It is like playing Snakes and Ladders without the dice. It is phoning people at random and hoping they might tell you the truth. It is annoying people with recorded…